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Washington Post chief announces job cuts – and refuses to answer questions

Publisher Fred Ryan described as ‘embarrassing’ after walking out of meeting following revelation that up to 250 jobs could be lost

The Guardian - US

A sick-leave showdown at a Warren Buffett–owned company highlighted the flaws in billionaire philanthropy

A controversy at railroad BNSF reveals concerns about how Warren Buffett and other billionaire philanthropists earn their fortunes.

Fortune

Elon Musk is no longer the world’s richest man—and the amount he’s lost this year is enough to land 4th place on the list

Investors have taken a tentative approach to Tesla in the wake of Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of social media platform Twitter.

Fortune

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The CEO of Amazon Web Services likes to hire people who are ‘restless and dissatisfied.’ Here’s why

Adam Selipsky, who runs Amazon's massive cloud computing business, says "If you’re not dissatisfied with what you see around you, you’re usually not compelled to reinvent something."

Fortune

‘Hey TikTok! It’s Dolly’: Dolly Parton joins popular social media platform

‘I have arrived!’ the singer’s debut Tiktok was captioned

The Independent UK

Jay-Z drops NFL ownership hint amid Washington Commanders takeover rumours

Rapper Jay-Z was in attendance for Thursday Night Football as he got comfortable in the owners suite, somewhere he is tipped to be in with the Washington Commanders soon

Daily Mirror

Amazon Prime Video and studios architect Jeff Blackburn to retire

A key architect of Amazon Prime Video, Jeff Blackburn, is retiring from the e-retailing giant.

Los Angeles Times

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Blue Origin NS-31 all-female crew space launch: Mission updates

Blue Origin just launched Katy Perry and the first all-female crew to space April 14. Here are live updates for the NS-31 mission.

Space

How Amazon grew an awkward side project into AWS, a behemoth that’s now 4 times bigger than its original shopping business

Over two decades, AWS has become the ultimate case study in corporate innovation.

Fortune

Amazon workers stage walkouts, protests on Black Friday

Employees across the globe demand Amazon pay better wages and improve working conditions.

Al Jazeera

The gods of Silicon Valley are falling to earth. So are their warped visions for society

Tech titans like Elon Musk and Sam Bankman-Fried have been feted for their wealth, but see the world in ways that also merit scrutiny , says Moya Lothian McLean

The Guardian - UK

End of an era? Get to know the big bosses quietly reshaping how tech does business...

With Elon mayhem at Twitter and mass firings at Meta, Silicon Valley is in chaos. Meanwhile, some low-key kingpins are quietly reshaping how tech does business (and you’ve probably never heard of them). Kate Wills reports

Evening Standard

Cultural industries have been captured by billionaires – a new book considers what we can do about it

This book speaks to a disenchanted present.

The Conversation

Jeff Bezos awards 40 grants worth $123 million to fight homelessness

Bezos recently said he'd give away most of his wealth, but the Amazon founder is more hesitant than other billionaries when it comes to philanthropy.

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Center for Women and Families receives donation from Jeff Bezos

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Will Bunch: Billionaires like Musk, Bankman-Fried didn't save the world. They wrecked it. Let's take it back

After growing up amid upper-middle-class affluence in Silicon Valley as the children of two Stanford Law School professors, as a super-smart kid who got into MIT to study physics, Sam Bankman-Fried decided in those teen years that he wanted to save the world in the worst way.

The Conversation

Retailers may see more red after Black Friday as consumers say they plan to pull back on spending – acting as if the US were already in a recession

Retailers are gearing up for another blockbuster holiday shopping season, but consumers burned by the highest inflation in a generation may have other ideas.

Fortune

Barclays and Jaguar looking to scoop up Meta and Twitter cast-offs to ramp up tech divisions

High finance and heavy manufacturers are looking to finally lure software developers laid off by Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos.

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The Guardian - AU

The grotesque inequality embodied by Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg is a threat to democracy

Something’s wrong when basic infrastructure maintenance seems utopian, while the hare-brained schemes of tech oligarchs become routine

The Guardian - UK

If only our Tory philistines would learn from Germany

Brief letters: Culture vouchers | The brilliance of David Squires | Jeff Bezos’s generosity | Orchestras in Manchester | England’s cricket carousel

USA Today Sports Media Group

Jeff Bezos plays it coy when asked about interest in buying Commanders

Bezos didn't confirm — nor deny — interest in the Commanders, and his partner, Lauren Sanchez, really loves football.

Tribune News Service

Jeff Bezos steps up 'flashy' giving while ex-wife quietly donates billions

Jeff Bezos' $100 million award to Dolly Parton is something of a puzzle to Phil Buchanan, president of the Center for Effective Philanthropy.

The Guardian - UK

All hail Jeff Bezos the philanthropist! The rest of us will just keep paying our taxes

The Amazon founder says giving money away ‘is really hard’. Luckily, poor people do far more of it than he does, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

Reason

The Case for Space Billionaires

What critics of the private space race get wrong

Reason

The End of Astronauts: Should We Send Robots to Space Instead?

Robots don't get cabin fever, develop cancer from cosmic radiation, miss their families, or go insane.

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